“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer
Source: Sacred Ground
“Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom.”
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
Context: The government has failed us; you can’t deny that. Anytime you live in the twentieth century, 1964, and you’re walking around here singing “We Shall Overcome,” the government has failed us. This is part of what’s wrong with you -- you do too much singing. Today it’s time to stop singing and start swinging. You can’t sing up on freedom, but you can swing up on some freedom. Cassius Clay can sing, but singing didn’t help him to become the heavyweight champion of the world; swinging helped him become the heavyweight champion.
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Wynton Marsalis (1961) American jazz musician
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Ragnar Frisch Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics
Source: 1930s, Propagation problems and impulse problems in dynamic economics, 1933, p. 1
“Won't you help to sing,
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had,
Redemption songs.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Redemption Song
Uprising (1979)
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
On how being right-handed negatively impacted his chances of batting .400, as quoted in "Aches, Pains... and Base Hits" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W6lWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=xecDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7036%2C4509721 by Jim Murray, in The Los Angeles Times (August 10, 1971). Also see the above comment (August 11, 1964) re "stepping in the bucket." <br class="br">Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution (1965)
“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
“I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball.”
Babe Ruth (1895–1948) American baseball player
As quoted in Go for the Gold: Thoughts on Achieving Your Personal Best (2001) by Ariel Books
Context: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball. In boxing, your fist usually stops when you hit a man, but its possible to hit so hard that your fist doesn't stop. I try to follow through in the same way. The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.